Perfect Strangers (Original screenplay for the 1950 film, presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald) Ginger Rogers, Thelma Ritter, Dennis Morgan (starring); Bretaigne Windust (director); Edith Sommer, George Oppenheimer (screenwriters); Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht (play) 1950s Cinema,Film Scripts,Films Based on Plays,Producers,Romance

Draft script for the 1950 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Nine reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). Based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1939 play "Ladies and Gentleman," about two jurors who fall in love during a high-profile murder case. A reunion film for Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan, who had previously co-starred in the successful 1940 film "Kitty Foyle." Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, undated, with credit for screenwriter Edith Sommer. 161 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 6/23/49 and 8/29/49. Pages Very Good, binding Good, with moderate foxing on the boards and endpapers, and front hinge starting.